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Celebrate the Olympic handover to London on Flickr and YouTube
In just a few days time, at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, China will hand over the Olympic flag to London. I'm quite relieved it is just the flag actually, because I had this terrible mental image of them handing over the Olympic Flame, and then Boris having to keep it burning in his draw in City Hall for the next four years. He'll be receiving the flag though, from the Mayor of Beijing, in a handover ceremony...

Read the full post - Published August 21, 2008 in Flickr, London Olympics, Olympics, YouTube

Introducing Olympic Fansivu
As well as Olympic Chipwrapper, I've made an Olympic version of Fansivu - my one page aggregator of user-generated content around a sporting event theme. Olympic Fansivu picks up the latest chatter from Twitter about the Olympics using Tweetscan, and adds links to the latest blog posts appearing on Technorati about the Beijing Games. Photos are automatically pulled in from Flickr, and I've tried something different this time from my Euro2008 Fansivu. Rather than blending a couple of tags...

Read the full post - Published August 7, 2008 in Flickr, Olympics, Web

Interactivity and Flickr at the British Library 'Ramayana' exhibtion
Whilst we were in the UK recently I took the opportunity to go to the British Library exhibition on the Ramayana. I've seen some great exhibitions there over recent years, including 'Front Page' and 'Sacred', but I have to say I found this one a little disappointing. It probably wasn't helped by the fact that when I visited it, it was absolutely swarming with school-kids, and I could barely get to see even a fraction of the main displays. There...

Read the full post - Published July 31, 2008 in Flickr

Daily Mail 'fat dog' article takes the copyright biscuit
Now, remind me again, what is it that newspaper publishers are always saying about respecting copyright? I only ask because of this article on the Daily Mail site today about fat pets. As I scrolled down I recognised one of the dogs pictured. He is a local chum of ours from Chania harbour. In fact, I recognised the photograph - posted to Flickr by polietileno. The unnamed Daily Mail journalist who put the article together appears to have simply searched...

Read the full post - Published May 13, 2008 in Daily Mail, Flickr

When is a stolen photo not a stolen photo?
Earlier this week I was just about to post an item to del.icio.us, when I came to a shuddering and furious halt. No, not because the post I was about to bookmark was giving away the python code to break the captcha of my favourite social bookmarking service, but because of the header image on the Blue Hat SEO blog. It was one of my pictures from my travels around Europe a couple of years back! Now, I was sure...

Read the full post - Published March 30, 2008 in Flickr

My Flickr photos from Torcello, Salzburg and Frangokastello on the web
Every now and again I like to write a little run-down of sites that have been using my Creative Commons Licensed photographs from Flickr. With all the moving around Europe I've done since I left the UK in 2005, it isn't much of a surprise to see that the three photographs I've recently been asked about are from three different countries. The About Archaeology site has used one of my shots of the exterior of the Santa Maria Assunta in...

Read the full post - Published February 19, 2008 in Flickr, Greece

Flickr users protest about Yahoo! takeover. Again.
The interweb's tubes have been buzzing that Flickr users are already in open revolt over Microsoft's offer to take-over Yahoo!, Flickr's parent company. Image by sebestyenistvan "A splinter faction of Flickr photo-sharing community members is threatening a symbolic 'mass suicide'" - Wired "I'm not cross and I'm not bitter - I'm just a little sad because I have a belief that things can be good/great without taking the obvious route". - grange85 "My fear is that over time they won't...

Read the full post - Published February 6, 2008 in Flickr, Microsoft, Yahoo

My photographs of Sedlic Ossuary gaining a wider audience
I was contacted a few weeks ago by some people asking if they could use my photographs of Sedlic Ossuary in a 'Sacred Destinations' travel guide for the area, and of course, I was delighted to agree. Sedlic is located in Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic, and was somewhere we visited quite early on in our tour of what is now known as "formerly Eastern Europe". The "attraction" of the church is that it is decorated with bones. "This...

Read the full post - Published November 27, 2007 in Flickr, Travelogue

I think I've Schmapped myself
I noticed this in the cartoon strip of one of the London free-sheets at the tail-end of last week, and wondered whether Schmap had actually paid for some product placement, or whether the whole thing was instead a bit of a co-incidence. I however, have not been paying for the product placement of my Creative Commons licenced Flickr photographs within their Schmap guides, which now seem to have grown to cover most of the major cities in Europe I've visited....

Read the full post - Published October 22, 2007 in Austria, Flickr, Web

I love my Flickr photos being on We Love Crete
I love my new home in Crete. Anastasi & Apostoli love it too - so much so that these members of the Greek diaspora have made a site about it - "We Love Crete". They also obviously love my photography of Chania on Flickr. They've used two of my Creative Commons licensed pictures on the site on their page about Chania....

Read the full post - Published June 8, 2007 in Flickr, Greece

Testing the dinosaur of image copyright law

Published May 29, 2007 in Flickr

Last Rounds project featuring some of my photographs of Tube stations

Published May 21, 2007 in Flickr, London Underground, Transport

One of my Flickr photographs inspires a stinky Ficlet

Published April 19, 2007 in Flickr

Flickr imprvment

Published March 23, 2007 in Flickr, Yahoo

My plastic bag photo is re-cycled by New Consumer

Published March 9, 2007 in Flickr, Other

My photos in The World & I Online gallery

Published January 18, 2007 in Flickr, Web

"Church and blur" on Druid Street

Published January 5, 2007 in Flickr, Other

Walthamstow Dog stadium on The Londonist, Visit London, and my Flickr stream

Published December 21, 2006 in Flickr, Walthamstow

More of my photographs included in Schmap's European travel guides

Published November 20, 2006 in Flickr, Other

Emerging geolocation etiquette on Flickr

Published September 12, 2006 in Flickr, Web

"Schmap: Zaragoza Photo Inclusion"

Published September 5, 2006 in Flickr, Product review, Widgets

Ineffective Flickr sex spam?

Published May 30, 2006 in Flickr, Web

John Peel Day on Flickr and the BBC Homepage

Published October 14, 2005 in BBC, Flickr, Music, Radio, Web

Yahoo! Using Flickr To Supplement News Coverage

Published September 1, 2005 in Flickr, Web, Yahoo

Things Our Neighbours Have Thrown Into Our Garden

Published August 22, 2005 in Flickr, Other, Walthamstow

Sarah Boxer Writes About The 7/7 Community On Flickr in The New York Times

Published July 11, 2005 in Flickr, London Underground, Media

Graffiti on Novy Most -> Wormfood

Published July 11, 2005 in Flickr, Other

Live8 On Flickr

Published July 2, 2005 in Flickr, Web

Orlowski on Flickr

Published April 16, 2005 in Flickr

Hot tags and Flickr spam

Published March 22, 2005 in Flickr

Thanks Nick!

Published March 4, 2005 in Flickr

Tag fun at Flickr

Published March 3, 2005 in Flickr